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IUSV invests in 700+ large and mid-cap companies with value characteristics. Its 3 heaviest sectors are healthcare, financials and industrials.
Investors should focus on areas/sectors that will benefit the most from the Fed's tightening policy.
The upheavals in the stock markets are likely to persist as the monetary landscape undergoes tectonic shifts. Even the value strategy which worked so well is showing signs of weakness.
Smart Beta ETF report for IUSV
Smart Beta ETF report for IUSV
The Federal Reserve announced the biggest interest-rate increase since 1994 to quell four-decade high inflation.
IUSV invests in a collection of stocks considered likely to be "value stocks" per popular pricing metrics: ratios of book value, earnings, and sales to price (per S&P's simple methodology). While the methodology is crude, a simple analysis of the fund's likely forward IRR based on consensus expectations leads me to believe that the fund is indeed cheap.
Value ETFs seek to capitalize on the inefficiencies in the market and have the potential to deliver higher returns with lower volatility compared with their growth and blend counterparts.
The events have led to risk-off trading, with lower-risk securities being in vogue. We have highlighted an ETF from five such zones in which investors could stash their money amid the market turmoil.